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The Gotham Awards traditionally marks the official start of Oscar season, recognizing the best in independent film. Recent past winners have included Oscar nominees Inside Llewyn Davis, The Act of Killing, Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beginners, The Tree of Life, Winter’s Bone and The Hurt Locker.

The industry tribute is given to a career veteran who has significantly influenced the film industry.

“We are honored to present our 2014 Industry Tribute to Ted Sarandos, a visionary who is credited with reshaping how, when and where we watch entertainment,” said Joana Vicente, executive director of the Independent Filmmakers Project, which presents the Gotham Awards. “He saw where streaming was going long before most in our industry, and was the first to create online original programming and allow us to binge entire seasons of it to our heart's content at one go.”

Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000 and has recently led the effort to develop original content for the streaming service, helping it garner 31 Emmy nominations. Netflix won its first Oscar last year for the documentary short, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, and had an additional nomination in the feature documentary race, but its The Square lost to Twenty Feet from Stardom.

Netflix is the exclusive streaming home of films from The Weinstein Company and also streams new movies in their pay TV window from DreamWorks Animation, Paramount, Lionsgate and, starting in 2016, Disney, including subsidiaries Marvel and Pixar.